Sugar Is Poison

By Angela 

Sugar

Most Canadians eat too much sugar. Sugars occur naturally in foods such as fruit, milk, honey and syrup. However, most of the sugar we eat has been added to food to make it taste sweet. Sugar is added to many types of food, such as soft drinks and juice drinks; cereal, cookies, candy, cakes and pastries; jams and ice cream. Some sauces and condiments – ketchup, for example – are very high in sugar.

Foods and drinks with added sugar have lots of calories but usually contain few nutrients – and they don’t help you feel full for long. For this reason, they are sometimes described as “empty calories”.

Sugar and cancer

Eating lots of foods that have sugar added means you are more likely to put on weight. Research shows that being overweight increases your risk of cancer, so try to eat these foods less often.

Click Link: The Sugar Detox

Tips to cut down on sugar

• Check nutrition labels to help you avoid foods high in added sugar. If sugar, glucose, honey, corn syrup, fructose, maltose or dextrose are listed, sugar has been added. If you see one of these near the top of the list, you know the product is high in added sugar.
• Drink water or unsweetened fruit juice instead of soft drinks and juice drinks. Try diluting fruit juice with sparkling water if you find it hard to give up soft drinks.
• Gradually reduce the amount of sugar you take in your coffee or tea.
• Have a piece of fruit when you’re craving something sweet.
• Choose whole grain breakfast cereals that are not coated with sugar or honey. If you find it hard to get used to the new taste, try sprinkling a little bit of sugary cereal on top of your healthier option at first. Then use a little less each day.
• Have a slice of melon or fresh berries with a low-fat yogurt instead of cookies for a mid-afternoon snack.
• Try using half the amount of sugar you would usually use in recipes. It works for most things except jam, meringues and ice cream.
• Choose canned fruit in juice rather than in syrup.
• Limit how often you eat processed foods

The Secrets of Sugar - the fifth estate - CBC News

The Secrets of Sugar - CBC News

Sugar needs to be a controlled substance in my eyes as it is dangerous and widely abused. Robert Lustig shares my point of view to a T.

'I'm not a fitness guru. I'm 45lb overweight.'

'We don’t have to ban sugar. But the food ­industry cannot be given carte blanche,' says Robert Lustig. 

Click Link: Robert Lustig 

When we constantly fill our body with sugars and starches our bodies have a hard time processing it. What our body does not consume, it ends up being stored away in fat cells so our body can use it later when needed and too much of it turns into fat making us obese. Too much sugars in our system will make our body's not want to produce our natural insulin which in turn creates diabeties. Like everything else it should be used in moderation and not as a daily consumption. 

257 Names for Hidden Sugar

Agave nectar (Often with HFCS) 
Agave syrup (Often with HFCS 
All natural evaporated cane juice 
Amasake 
Amber liquid sugar 
Anhydrous dextrose 
Apple butter 
Apple sugar 
Apple syrup 
Arenga sugar 
Bakers special sugar 
Barbados Sugar 
Barley malt 
Barley malt syrup 
Bar sugar 
Berry Sugar 
Beet molasses 
Beet sugar 
Beet syrup 
Blackstrap molasses 
Blonde coconut sugar 
Brown rice syrup 
Brown sugar 
Buttered syrup 
Candy floss 
Cane crystals 
Cane juice 
Cane juice crystals 
Cane juice powder 
Cane sugar 
Caramel 
Carob syrup 
Caster sugar 
Castorsugar 
Cellobiose 
Chicory (HFCS) 
Coarse sugar 
Coconut palm sugar 
Coconut sap sugar 
Coconut sugar 
Coconut syrup 
Coco sugar 
Coco sap sugar 
Concentrate juice (Often with HFCS) 
Concord grape juice concentrate 
Confectioner’s sugar 
Corn sugar (HFCS) 
Corn syrup (HFCS) 
Corn syrup solids (HFCS) 
Corn sweetener (HFCS) 
Cornsweet 90 ® (really HFCS 90) 
Creamed honey (Often with HFCS) 
Crystal dextrose 
Crystalline fructose 
Crystallized organic cane juice 
D-arabino-hexulose 
Dark brown sugar 
Dark molasses 
Date sugar 
Decorating sugar 
Dehydrated sugar cane juice 
Demerara Sugar 
Dextrin 
Dextran 
Dextrose 
D-fructose 
D-fructofuranose 
Diastatic malt 
Diatase 
Disaccharide 
Dixie crystals 
D-mannose 
Dried evaporated organic cane juice 
D-xylose 
ECJ 
Evaporated organic cane juice 
Evaporated corn sweetener (HFCS) 
Ethyl maltol 
First molasses 
Florida Crystals 
Free Flowing 
Free flowing brown sugar 
Fructamyl 
Fructose (HFCS) 
Fructose crystals (HFCS) 
Fructose sweetener (HFCS) 
Fruit fructose (HFCS) 
Fruit juice (Often with HFCS) 
Fruit juice concentrate (Often with HFCS) 
Fruit sugar (Often with HFCS) 
Fruit syrup (Often with HFCS) 
Galactose 
Glucodry 
Glucomalt 
Glucoplus 
Glucose 
Glucose-fructose syrup (HFCS) 
Glucose solids 
Glucosweet 
Gluctose fructose (HFCS) 
Golden molasses 
Golden sugar 
Golden syrup 
Gomme syrup 
Granulated fructose 
Granulated sugar 
Granulated sugar cane juice 
Grape sugar 
Grape juice concentrate 
Gur 
HFCS 
HFCS 42 
HFCS 55 
High dextrose glucose syrup 
High-fructose corn syrup 
High fructose maize syrup (HFCS) 
High maltose corn syrup (Often with HFCS) 
Hydrogenated starch 
Hydrogenated starch hydrosylate 
Hydrolyzed corn starch 
Honey 
Honey comb 
Honey powder 
HSH 
Icing sugar 
Inulin (HFCS) 
Invert sugar 
Inverted sugar syrup 
Invert syrup 
Icing sugar 
Isoglucose (HFCS) 
Isomalt 
Isomaltotriose 
Isosweet 
Jaggery 
Jaggery powder 
Lactitol 
Lactose 
Levulose 
Lesys 
Light brown sugar 
Light molasses 
Liquid dextrose 
Liquid fructose (Often with HFCS) 
Liquid fructose syrup (Often with HFCS) 
Liquid honey 
Liquid maltodextrin 
Liquid sucrose 
Liquid sugar 
Maize syrup (HFCS) 
Maldex 
Maldexel 
Malt 
Malted barley syrup 
Malted corn syrup 
Malted corn and barley syrup 
Malted barley 
Maltitol 
Maltitol syrup 
Malitsorb 
Maltisweet 
Maltodextrin 
Maltose 
Maltotriitol 
Maltotriose 
Maltotriulose 
Malt syrup 
Mannitol 
Maple Sugar 
Maple syrup 
Meritose 
Meritab 700 
Misri 
Mizuame 
Molasses 
Monosaccharide 
Muscovado sugar 
Mycose 
Mylose 
Nigerotriose 
Oligosaccharride 
Organic agave syrup 
Organic brown rice syrup 
Organic cane juice crystals 
Organic coconut palm sugar 
Organic palm sugar 
Organic sucanat 
Organic sugar 
Organic raw sugar 
Orgeat syrup 
Palm sugar 
Palm syrup 
Panela 
Pancake syrup 
Panocha 
Pearl sugar 
Piloncillo 
Potato maltodextrine 
Powdered sugar 
Promitor 
Pure cane syrup 
Pure sugar spun 
Raisin syrup 
Rapadura 
Raw agave syrup 
Raw sugar 
Raffinose 
Refiner’s syrup 
Rice maltodextrine 
Rice Syrup 
Rice syrup solids 
Raw honey 
Rock sugar 
Saccharose 
Sanding sugar 
Second molasses 
Shakar 
Simple syrup 
Sirodex 
Soluble corn fiber 
Sorbitol 
Sorbitol syrup 
Sorghum 
Sorghum molasses 
Sorghum syrup 
Sucanat 
Sucre de canne naturel 
Sucrose 
Sucrosweet 
Sugar 
Sugar beet syrup 
Sugar beet crystals 
Sugar cane juice 
Sugar cane natural 
Sugar hat 
Sulfured molasses 
Sweetened condensed milk 
Sweet sorghum syrup 
Syrup Syrup 
Table sugar 
Tagatose 
Treacle 
Trehalose 
Tremalose 
Trimoline 
Triose 
Trisaccharides 
Turbinado sugar 
Unrefined sugar 
Unsulphured molasses 
White crystal sugar 
White grape juice concentrate 
White refined sugar 
White sugar 
Wood sugar 
Xylose 
Yellow sugar 

Written and Published By:

Angela Lumley